Cleghornia Wight

Climber. Branches sparsely lenticellate. Leaves opposite, those of a pair equal, colleters in the axils. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, forming panicles, usually at least the lower branches of inflorescence alternate, more rarely all branches opposite; flowers 5-merous. Sepals with colleters only in sinuses. Corolla lobes dextrorse in bud, not twisted in bud; tube cylindrical; lobes erect in bud, ± symmetrical; mature flower salverform or with lobes erect. Stamens completely included, inserted near base of corolla tube, subsessile; anthers fertile in the upper half only, the lower half sterile, laterally with lignified guide rails and sagittate appendages at the base, pubescent on outside at the tip; adnate to the style head. Disk of 5 separate fleshy lobes. Gynoecium 2-carpellate, apocarpous but apically united into a common style, glabrous; ovules numerous; style head without a collar at base. Fruit of 2 slender, terete or fusiform, divergent or parallel follicles. Seeds: grain narrowly elliptic, somewhat flattened, glabrous except for the apical coma on a short beak.